Year: | Our Mythical Childhood Survey

Ludwik Jerzy Kern

Based on: Katarzyna Marciniak, Elżbieta Olechowska, Joanna Kłos, Michał Kucharski (eds.), Polish Literature for Children & Young Adults Inspired by Classical Antiquity: A Catalogue, Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2013, 444 pp. (accessed: June 11, 2021), section by Tomasz Królak, 112–118. The book is a collection of short fables in verse; some are adapted versions of Jean de La Fontaine’s texts, others are the author’s ori(...)

literary

YEAR: 1953

COUNTRY: Poland

TAGS: Aesop Aesop’s Fables

Pauline Baynes, Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis

The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia, 4)

The Silver Chair, the fourth book published in the Narnia Chronicles by C. S. Lewis, introduces us to Jill Pole, a girl who attends Experiment House. She is cruelly bullied by some of the children there. At the beginning of the book she is found crying behind the gym by Eustace Scrubb. Eustace – who had appeared in the previous installment of the Narnia Chronicles, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – comforts Jill and confides in her about his adventures in Narnia. As they flee fro(...)

literary

YEAR: 1953

COUNTRY: United Kingdom

TAGS: Afterlife Bible Centaur(s) Faun Immortality Underworld